The fourth entry in EPR’s “Exitos” series is a trip. “8 Cities, 9 Nights” by Jacques Renault is a sonic snapshot of his recent swing through Texas, California, and Mexico, with Jacques winding up back home in Brooklyn. The mix starts dark and atmoshepheric and around the 21 minute launches into a dancefloor rush that doesn’t let up during the hour-plus mix. Download “8 Cities, 9 Nights” below from our Soundcloud player.
We are thrilled to announce A Club Called Rhonda‘s first-ever tour. With the help of our friends at Scion A/V, A Club Called Rhonda: Coast to Coast, will be touching down and lifting off in New York, Miami, Chicago, and San Francisco from June 27-30th. Headlining the tour will be Rhonda’s old friends Darshan and Morgan from Metro Area, with Liv and Saheer from House of House setting them up, and Rhonda’s resident GODDOLLARS opening up the party and regulating with the regular Rhonda rhythms. Rhonda’s crew of Gregory, Russ, Ryan, and Alexis will also be on the tour, giving the rest of the country the same debaucherous behavior, high production quality, and sleepness nights that LA has come to know and love. Full dates after the jump.
Delivery is the moniker for house wunderkinds Alex Perliter and Greg Shin, who with their “Give Me Something To Feel” mix have contributed the third entry into EPR’s “Exitos” series. Fresh off their collaboration with B.C. on “Return to Me,” the debut release on Rhonda International, Delivery have given us a mix that is a perfect representation of their sound: deep, dark, and dirty. This is a proper mix of house tunes for the weekend, so we thought there was no better time to premiere this then on a Friday afternoon, to get you ready for the weekend.
Entry #2 in our “Exitos” mixtape series is “Acid Sonidero” by DJ Lengua, or Eamon Ore-Giron as he’s known to his parents. A DJ, producer, and artist (whose work has been exhibited frequently, including at LACMA), Eamon has bounced up and down the Americas, having lived in Peru, DF, SF, and now LA (he’s originally from Tucson). One of the founders of Club Unicornio, the late, great San Francisco monthly, he’s now one of the forces behind the always-fun Mas Exitos, which takes place the first Thursday of every month here in LA.
I met Eamon (and his rad wife and fellow artist Gina Osterloh) at a bar in Pasadena during Euro ’08, and since then I’ve watched him put on excellent solo art shows, release the killer Cruzando album (get it here), and organize great events like a screening of El Mundo de Los Pobres, the rare 1986 film that stars chicha legends Los Shapis. So it’s an honor to have such a busy person take the time out to make a mix for EPR, and “Acid Sonidero” is fantastic, a mad mix of drowsy drops, washboard rhythms, and bass for hips, ending with a sample from Dr. Dre. It’s a crazy flight through the Andes up to Mexico City, with a trip back home to California. Thank you Eamon!
Jeppe in the surf on his private island
A big congratulations is in order to Jeppe Laursen, who co-wrote and co-produced two songs (including the title track) on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, which celebrates its second week as the best-selling album in the world. In addition to “Born This Way,” Jeppe also worked on the track “Bad Kids.” Jeppe is currently working on original material, and his next release will be the single “I Don’t Know What To Do,” a collaboration with The Magician which will be out later this summer. And the above photo was actually taken in Hawaii in 2007, when Jeppe did an interview with Butt Magazine.
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